June card swap on Carolyn's

Postie came this morning and bought me the June swaps 'for no reason' cards from the group on Carolyn's, kindly hosted and organised by Melissa.

These are the cards I received:

From Jan1951:


From: Helenc:




From CarolynL:

From Annmarie:

I can now reveal the cards I sent for the swap:

Secret sender keyring

I received this a few days ago - it was part of a swap on Carolyn's. At the beginning of June secret senders sent one another an altered notebook and at the beginning of July a keyring. At the beginning of next month we can choose to send any item that is handmade or altered.

I suspect I might have worked out who my secret sender is - if by any chance you read my blog: I think this is fab! Thank you!!

Glamour CJ

This is the start of a CJ for a group on Bumbleberry.










The 'sign in' tags have a little handbag, dress or shoe on each one and a space on the back for the person to record their name and date.


The front of the CJ has a material background. I bought this a long time ago and have never found a use for it until now - and it seemed just right. It's actually much shinier irl than on the picture.

Wow!

The room has been fitted - a couple of hitches, but nothing disastrous - someone will have to return at some point but it probably won't be this week.

Today (it's now Monday, but this will show as Saturday because the rest of it was saved in draft) we had someone come to measure up for carpet. We chose what we wanted - he phoned to order it and said it would be delivered tomorrow and fitted on Thursday!! It won't go with the room as it's now decorated, but I'll have to put up with that because the decorator can't do it till the autumn because he has so much outside work throughout the summer.

I'm already much appreciating the space of the worktop, which has enough depth to enable me to push my laptop back and have enough space in front of me to craft - and plenty of other space to spread out - I'm sure you other crafters will appreciate that we can never have too much space around us.

I spent most of Friday evening and Saturday doing some of the challenges on Just Bex (in fact I was silly because I should have listened to John when he said I was spending too long and my back would feel worse - and he was right).

I saved all the scans and photos of the challenges in draft (needed to put them on here so that I could host them for displaying on Just Bex forum). Because of the way blogger works they are in reverse order, but I'm not going through them now to change them. Also I would normally say which challenge each is for, but it would just take unnecessary time.

So here they all are:

More detail:

At last

At last here is the other part of 'one template two tasks' on Just Bex. I did the card ages ago and here now is the LO.

It's a happy picture of me with one of our grandchildren.

The papers are from the K & Co 'red hat society' paper pad. It's quite unusual to put red and purple together, but I felt that it went well with the colours in the photo.

Card template four squares and a lonely circle

This is what I made for this challenge on Just Bex:


The papers used have a lovely sheen on them and I think are quite unusual. Unfortunately, I can't remember where they came from (I discovered I'd got them among my 6 x 6 papers). If anyone recognises them and knows the make, I would love to know so I can get some more.

Irl the Congrats circle stands out more as it has a good dollop of silicon glue under it.

Just Bex June Challenge

I've now finished stages 1, 2 and 3, so here are the remaining scans:






This means I'm now up-to-date with this, but there's a final part which is going to be launched tonight. It depends on how the room goes and how I feel (back isn't at all good today) how much crafting I get done.

I want to finish off a couple of things for other challenges and also a couple of CJs.

ATCs

'In the garden' ATCs for the swap on Carolyn's:

'Postal art' ATCs for the swap on Tanda:

The men have arrived to fit the spare room. The disorganised chaos this morning is more disorganised than ever!! but it's all in a good cause. I've managed to put my laptop and printer/scanner on the dining table and so far broadband is still available via my router. As the router is in the spare room, at some point it will have to be switched off, so I'm making use of the connection while it's still here.

Craft organiser

Here is my craft organiser so far:

Outside cover, back and front:


Inside front cover, with a pocket for notes:

Inside back cover, with a pocket for receipts:

Diary section:

So that's parts 1 and 2 of the June project on Just Bex - now I need to see what part 3 is - I think it's printing out templates etc, which I've done already - just need to organise them!

I'm only three weeks behind everyone else!

At last I've finished off the front and back cover of my craft folder for the June project on Just Bex. So that's a start. I need to decorate the inside and then do something with the dividers, print a calendar and insert projects etc.